When you take into a ccount that any time they try and lay fiber it gets stolen and sold for it's scrap value, this is a great idea. Less chance of the infrastructure being stolen/damaged.

Looks like they're trying to take on Clusty.

Time for the obligatory "Bill Gates' wife was the project manager for Microsoft Bob" post.

(Though, to be fair, she was "only" his girlfriend at the time of Bob's development and release of Microsoft Bob.)

It's probably a bandwidth issue... VLC is 16 megs for a windows install, which is pretty big when not on broadband.

If it's 840x480 and ~400 bucks now, imagine what they'll be like in a year or two.
Can you imagina a netbook with a relatively small screen, but that you can dim the lights and instantly have a 24' screen projected on the wall?

So basically replacing water with a mixture of salt, sugar, and corn syrup will cause health problems?

NO SHIT? REALLY? /sarcasm

The dehydration effects of that much soda mixed with the effects of that much of a caloric overload (My conservative estimate pegs it at about 425 calories per liter for cola. So someone consuming seven liters a day would be consuming almost 3000 calories a day, and that's before we factor in food intake. (Keep in mind the average person needs between 2000 and 2200 calories to maintain body weight, anything more becomes fat.)

Anyone ever wonder if maybe Apple might see all these rumors, and interpret them as a large demand for a product, then create said product?

I wouldn't rule out the possibility that inital rumors were false, but got the heads talking in Cupertino.

As it currently stands, a human operator makes all kill orders, be it dropping a bomb from an F117 to ordering a predator drone to open fire. DoD culture simply does not presently allow for autonomous robots with lethal weaponry. (Though it could be argues this is less about ethical issues and more about preserving the current way of life in the armed services)

A summer camp I worked at was using software called gigapan. Basically a tripod with a servo on it and some custom software to take a shit load of ~4MP pictures and stitch them together to create an extremely high resolution panorama.

The CMU project page has more details, and the commercial arm of the project is here.

Are you seriously implying that corporations refusing to let you surf porn at work are being unreasonable?

Doesn't the EU have the concept of double jeopardy?

There's also the danger of someone using your name.

In high school a friend of mine made some stupid 9/11 truth petition and slapped my name on it. Now when you google my full name, it's like the 4th result.

Extremely high read/write speed?

Give it a few years after consumer release, and you'll have the perfect backup solution: Quick, cheap, easily stored (throw it in a safe deposit box and you're good to go)

The cynic in me is skeptical that the swine flu story broke the same day it was announced more torture pictures were being released.

Misdirection is one of the oldest tricks in the book.

If you you take a look at the detailed stats on the effected, only people in Mexico died, which could be attributed to lack of medical attention rather than a particularly virulent strain of swine flu. In mexico, roughly 1600 people were infected, roughly 100 died. However in the US, we've had ~100 confimed cases. Based on that data, we should expect ~10 deaths, but have had none so. far.